An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Only Retaking Gaza will Work!

Ido Ben Porat

Former Israeli National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror said that the only way Israel will be able to completely stop the rocket fire from Gaza
is for the IDF to retake the region. "We've never had a crushing blow
that hurt the other side's the ability to launch missiles," adding that
he believes the only way to achieve complete quiet is to "retake Gaza
and be there for six months to a year to clean it out." (Why always half-measures? Israel needs to use this opportunity and remove all enemy population from Jewish land. Jews in Negev and South Israel deserve to live and feel free and secure!)

He explained that the extent of the IDF's operation in Gaza depends on "how much we are willing to pay for quiet in the south." Amidror estimated that an operation retaking Gaza would require three to 13 days.

He
stressed that the price of such a military operation would be dozens of
casualties, but added, "I think eventually there will be no choice. If
we cannot force Hamas to ask for a ceasefire by attacking from the air,
we may have to go into Gaza." (Maybe Israel
needs to change its brand of National Security Advisers? Is Netanyahu
willing to listen? Why have a ceasefire, which Hamas has never honored
before and has broken all of them almost immediately? How long is Israel willing to perpetuate this stupidity?)

Need to Remove Cancer!

On Thursday afternoon, July 10, the IDF advised 100,000 Gaza civilians to leave their homes in the northern Gazavillages of Beit
Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Greater Ibsen and Smaller Ibsen and head west to
the coast or south, to remove themselves from danger. This order, issued
shortly after a special Israeli cabinet meeting, suggested that an Israel
military incursion is impending. During the day, Hamas kept up its
barrage, firing 100 rockets, so demonstrating that its rocket capability
was not impaired by three days of massive Israeli air strikes. (Netanyahu needs to take advice from an oncologist who to deals with the enemies.)

120 Rockets Fired from Gaza at Israel in One Day!

Some 120 rockets from Gaza were fired at Israel
on Tuesday, the first day of the IDF's Operation Protective Edge. 23 of
the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Islamist-controlled
territory since November 2012. Crowds of Muslims (most of them are residents of Israel)gather at Al Aqsa mosque to celebrate rockets reaching Jerusalem
. Another half a million Israelis came under rocket attack before dawn
on Friday, July 11, as Hamas again expanded its rocket radius up to
Haifa, 150 km north of the Gaza Strip. (
After watching international news from Gaza presented by several
networks, it feels like those 'Israel-lovers' are almost frustrated with
the success of the Iron Dom system - that no Jews have been killed by
rockets fired from Gaza!)

All Israel within Range

First
Hamas rocket hits Nahariya, a small resort town 15 minutes drive from
the Lebanese border. The rocket traveled 172 km. Nahariya, frequently
blasted by Hizballah Katyushas in the past.

Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak

Unfortunately,
the Operation Protective Edge is looking like its predecessors -
Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9 and Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012,
which ended with Hamas still in power in the Gaza Strip. Will Israelcomplete the mission this time - destroying terror infrastructure and removing enemy population from Jewish land?

The
head of Yisrael Beiteinu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, informed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to dissolve the
Yisrael Beiteinu party's joint faction with Likud, saying that it was
"not working". The decision comes against a backdrop of Lieberman's
fierce criticism of Netanyahu for Israel's tempered response to Hamas as the rocket strikes continue from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

First Hamas rockets were fired or intercepted on Tuesday night, July 8, over Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion, Givatayim, Raanana, Caesareaand Yavne. House was hit in N. Jerusalem. Hamas also made several attempts to smuggle terrorists into Israel
for attacks: The IDF repelled a Hamas naval commando landing on Ashkelon's Zikkim beach.Another group of terrorists tried to creep into Israelthrough a tunnel under the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Even BBC Outraged by Fake anti-Israel Propaganda

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) published a short report last
Tuesday in which it warned that many of the graphic images that are
being shared on social media, purporting to show destruction that the
IDF is wreaking in Gaza, are not in fact photos from Operation
Protective Edge - "investigation has found that many of these images are
not from the latest conflict and not even from Gaza. Some date as far
back as 2009 and others are from conflicts in Syria and Iraq."

Israel Allows Aid into Gaza Despite Fighting

More than 200 trucks of goods including food and basic products passed into Gaza from Israel, including some 200,000 liters of fuel daily. Rambam Health Care Campus provides medical care to patients from Gaza and the PA. Currently, hospitalized Palestinians include three adults and eight children from
Gaza.

Not so Helpless Enemy

The long-range Hamas rockets that reached Hadera 110km north of Gaza Tuesday, July 8, have been identified as the Syrian-made M-302 Khaibar missiles which Hizballah launched against Haifa
in the 2006 Lebanon War. Hamas has several hundred of them. It is based
on Iranian technology, deriving from the Chinese WS-1. Hizballah
engineers posted in the Gaza Strip helped Hamas improve the M-302 and
extend its range and accuracy.

Hamas Attacked Dimona

Hamas launched a salvo of missiles at Israel's main nuclear facility on Wednesday night. Three rockets were aimed towards the southern Israeli town of Dimona and the nearby Negev nuclear reactor and research centre.

IDF Gets New Iron Dome Battery

The
IDF received a new battery, the eighth one, was given to the Israel Air
Force on Friday afternoon. The battery became operational in the
evening hours and will improve Israel'
s ability to defend residents from rocket attacks. The Iron Dome, which
is designed to intercept rockets that are fired towards populated area,
has proven very effective and its success rate was listed as 90% in
2012.

A
38 year-old man was assaulted in Malmö, Sweden, a week ago - for the
sole crime of hanging an Israeli flag in his window. The assailants
broke the man's window first, than ten people chased the man from his
building, wielding iron pipes. He managed to narrowly escape his
attackers and was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
(Many Europeans, not just Jews, live in the shadow of Islamic/Arab
violence threat, fearing to express freely their political views!)

Violation of International Law not a problem for Hamas

Hours after IDF Spokespersons Unit continues to expose Hamas's use of civilians as human shields
a Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri admitted that the group uses civilians
as human shields and encouraging Gazans to continue to do this. (Predictably, there is no 'outrage' in UN about it!)
Some of the civilian casualties were a result of terrorists using
civilians as human shields, a fact which Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu emphasized in a statement on Tuesday evening. "The IDF aims
its actions against Hamas terrorists and not against innocent
civilians," Netanyahu stressed. "But Hamas purposely hides behind
Palestinian civilians, and therefore bears responsibility when they are
inadvertently hit."

When
Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis.
Her photograph was chosen as the image of the ideal Aryan baby, and
distributed in party propaganda. But what the Nazis didn't know was that
their perfect baby was really Jewish. (And the perfect Aryan man was a little 'shmendrik' from Austria :)

Bahrain has ordered a top US
diplomat, US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
and Labour Tom Malinowski to leave the country after he met with a
leading Shia opposition group. Malinowski, who arrived in the country a
day before and had been scheduled to stay for three days, was ordered to
leave after meeting with Bahrain
's Shia opposition group, Al-Wefaq. (Israel
must take a lesson of self-respect from the enemies. Any Western
diplomat or reporter who is meeting and promoting legitimacy of the fake
Palestinians must be deported from Israel!)

"West Bank": Claims that "Judea and Samaria" is simply the "biblical name for the West Bank
" stands history on its head. The Hebrew-origin terms "Judea" and "Samaria" were used through 1950, when invading (Trans-)Jordan renamed them the "West Bank"
in order to disassociate these areas of the Jewish homeland from Jews.
The UN's own 1947 partition resolution referred not to "West Bank," but to "the hill country of Samaria and Judea." Under this formulation, Jordanis the "East Bank" of the original Palestine Mandate, which was designated as the homeland for the Jewish People.

Egypt provides limited opening of the Rafah crossing with Gaza
providing a small glimmer of hope for Gazans to leave. After nearly a month of closure, Egypt opened Gaza
's main gate to the outside world, but travelling is restricted to
medical patients and people seriously wounded by Israeli air strikes. Gaza's Interior Ministry announced that Egyptian passport holders would also be eligible to leave through Rafah.

Quote of the Week:

"How can it be that, after we have three boys kidnapped and murdered, and two consecutive weeks of rocket fire, Israel
's approach is: silence will be met with silence? ...We must accept the
reality that this is a mistake. Instead of dealing with the problem, we
are rejecting the problem." - Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Foreign Minister, commenting on Netanyahu's speech - When a country has no plans for future, lazy politicians chose the ugly status quo!

Alan Elsner, a vice president of communications for J Street a nonprofit group advocating peace between Israeland the Palestinians based on a two-state solution wrote that:

In
the Jewish world, we are all hurting right now, all angry... it is more
important than ever to remember our heritage and our values. "Justice,
justice, shall you pursue," declares the Book of Deuteronomy 16:20
. (suddenly he became religious?)

...Worst
of all would be to react as Israel has responded so many times in the
past ...it would drive another stake into the heart of the two-state
solution - which remains the only sane and just way of resolving the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (CNN, another 'friend' of Israel
, published this article, but distanced itself from its idiocy. He did
not write this 'windy' article at the time when IDF was searching for
kidnapped Jewish teens, while PA/Hamas were celebrating and distributing
sweets to Arab children - and this group of self-hating Jewish
hypocrites has made no public comments while almost 800 rockets have
been fired at Israelfrom Gaza!)

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

In my opinion, Israel should definitely take back Gaza!!!Don't give United Nations nor even the USA a concern over this decision; neither are making any sense at this moment.Israel has a right to defend herself...period! When Gaza has been shown to be misused by Radicalism, Islamist Jihad evil entities, then shall be it. No more Gaza for them. Godspeed Israel!

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member